absit

noun

1. Formal permission to be away from a college for the greater part of the day or more.

   In the evening, after some difficulty, he persuaded his tutor to give him an absit to sleep at Huntingdon that night, and drove over there after dinner in a fly with Egerton, Castleton, and Grey.

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin absit (“let (him or her) be absent”), the third-person singular present active subjunctive of absum (“be absent”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry absit (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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